Dynamics of KdV solitons in the presence of a slowly varying potential

Details Dynamics of KdV solitons in the presence of a slowly varying potential Dynamics of KdV solitons in the presence of a slowly varying potential

2010-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/1001.1583v3

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Analysis of PDEs

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We study the dynamics of solitons as solutions to the perturbed KdV (pKdV) equation $\partial_t u = -\partial_x (\partial_x^2 u + 3u^2-bu)$, where $b(x,t) = b_0(hx,ht)$, $h\ll 1$ is a slowly varying, but not small, potential. We option an explicit description of the trajectory of the soliton parameters of scale and position on the dynamically relevant time scale $\delta h^{-1}\log h^{-1}$, together with an estimate on the error of size $h^{1/2}$. In addition to the Lyapunov analysis commonly applied to these problems, we use a local virial estimate due to Martel-Merle (2005). The results are supported by numerics. The proof does not rely on the inverse scattering machinery and is expected to carry through for the $L^2$ subcritical gKdV-$p$ equation, $1

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